AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



coast. I was in the North Bay when the fisheries were protected by 

 cutters, and saw the Americans kept off beyond three miles, and they 

 took scarcely any mackerel while our vessels within three miles of tuo 

 shore were doing well. 



3. In this harbor large quantities of clams are got for bait. Al>out 

 firty sail of vessels are supplied every year with this bait. Theae ven- 

 sels take from twenty-five to thirty barrels each. These vessels thun 

 supplied are Canadian. They say the clauis got here are just as good 

 as the American. These vessels use these clams for bait in taking 

 mackerel and codfish. The codfish taken by clam bait is with hook and 

 line. 



MICHAEL ROBERTSON'. 



Sworn to before me this 17th day of August, 1877. 



S. T. N. SELLON,./. /'. 

 PORT JOLLIE, 1877. 



No. 251. 



In the matter of the Fisheries Commission at Halifax, tinder the Treaty 



of Washington. 



I, GEOFFREY W. PUBLICOVER, of Getson's Cove, in the county of 

 Lunenburg, master mariner, make oath and say as follows : 



1. I have been engaged in the fisheries for twelve years down to 'the 

 fall of 1873 inclusive. I fished along the southern coast of Nova Scotia, 

 around Cape Breton, on the eastern side of New Brunswick, around 

 Prince Edward's Island, around the Magdalenes, on the Canadian coast 

 of Labrador, and am well acquainted with the inshore fisheries in Lunen- 

 burg County. I have taken all the kinds of fish found on the above- 

 mentioned coasts. 



2. I have seen in Port Hood Harbor at one time four hundred sail of 

 mackerel vessels, of which up wards of three hundred were Americans. 

 I have seen in the fall of 1873 one hundred and eighteen vessels engaged 

 in taking mackerel, of whom one hundred at least were American ves- 

 sels. These vessels were all in sight. There were many which we did 

 not see. I have often made calculations with Nova Scotia and Ameri- 

 can skippers, and during the falls of 1871, 1872, and 1873, we put the 

 American vessels engaged in taking mackerel at over four hundred sail 

 on an average for the three years. These vessels take the most of their 

 mackerel inshore, and in my opinion it would not pay to fish mackerel 

 in the North Bay unless they can be taken inshore. 



3. These American mackerel men carry from fifteen to twenty two 

 hands. These- vessels take from two to six hundred barrels on each trip, 

 and make from three to four trips. In the falls of seventy one and two 

 many of them made four trips and took as many as two thousand barrels 

 of mackerel in the year. 



4. I have seen many American vessels engaged in taking codfish in 

 the North Bay. These vessels carry about twelve men each and take 

 from about ten to twelve hundred quintals of codfish during the season. 

 These vessels take fish inshore within three miles of the shore, and 

 have seen them take codfish by trawling close into the shore at Scalene. 

 They take fish wherever they can get them. 



5. I have frequently seen the Americans take herring aron 

 Magdalenes. These vessels carry about from eight to ten hand 

 take from one thousand to two thousand barrels each. I have seen 

 Americans take herring and codfish on the Canadian coast of Labradc 



